
{"id":114,"date":"2025-05-20T03:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/fw-dev\/?p=114"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:21:53","slug":"launch-of-the-futureworks-collective-at-aninception-workshop-in-negombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/2025\/05\/launch-of-the-futureworks-collective-at-aninception-workshop-in-negombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the\u00a0FutureWORKS\u00a0Collective\u00a0at\u00a0an inception workshop in\u00a0Negombo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/group_photo-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/group_photo-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/group_photo-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/group_photo-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/group_photo.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;FutureWORKS&nbsp;Collective was&nbsp;officially&nbsp;launched at an inception workshop&nbsp;organised by&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justjobsnetwork.org\/\"><em>JustJobs<\/em><em>&nbsp;Network<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;on March 6-9,&nbsp;2024&nbsp;in Negombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop was the first&nbsp;in-person&nbsp;convening of the five regional&nbsp;hubs that will form the&nbsp;Global South&nbsp;research network.&nbsp;The FutureWORKS Collective seeks to foster innovation that advances skills for the future of work and promote decent work globally.&nbsp;It will do this through Southern-led interdisciplinary research, network consolidation, and collaboration in public policy processes.&nbsp;This&nbsp;network, the&nbsp;FutureWORKS&nbsp;Collective&nbsp;is funded by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/idrc-crdi.ca\/en\"><em>International Development Research Centre<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(IDRC)&nbsp;of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIRNEasia&nbsp;is leading in the building of the Asian network of the initiative\u2014FutureWORKS Asia\u2014over a period of five years. Similar networks are being built in Africa by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/\"><em>University of the Witwatersrand<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ug.edu.gh\/\"><em>University of Ghana<\/em><\/a>; in the MENA region by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aub.edu.lb\/\"><em>American University of Beirut<\/em><\/a>; and in Latin America and the Caribbean by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redsudamericana.org\/\"><em>Red Sudamericana de&nbsp;<\/em><em>Econom\u00eda<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Aplicada<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;The&nbsp;<em>JustJobs<\/em><em>&nbsp;Network<\/em>&nbsp;will play the role of a&nbsp;global knowledge mobilization hub that&nbsp;will&nbsp;facilitate synergy building, peer learning, knowledge synthesis and mobilization across the five regional hubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Asia regional hub over the project period, we will be working toward the objective of developing and leading a regional research network to advance skills and policies for an inclusive and sustainable future of work in Asia.&nbsp;The network will engage in&nbsp;shared, interdisciplinary, and Southern-led research, as well as&nbsp;peer-to-peer learning,&nbsp;and collaboration in public policy processes.&nbsp;<strong>This will include the<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>award<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>approximately 12 research grants for organisations and institutions across the Asian region<\/strong><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong>The grants will be&nbsp;to conduct&nbsp;and disseminate&nbsp;high-quality, policy-relevant research&nbsp;which addresses the challenges of ensuring decent work&nbsp;in the Global South,&nbsp;in light of the challenges&nbsp;broughtabout by&nbsp;technological change, climate change and the climate transition,&nbsp;as well as other demographic shifts that are taking place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the three days, the regional partners&nbsp;presented their plans in detail, and collectively&nbsp;worked&nbsp;toward&nbsp;a cross-regional theory of change&nbsp;that integrates the research priorities of all partners,&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;a common&nbsp;monitoring,&nbsp;evaluation and&nbsp;learning (MEL) framework&nbsp;with&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;indicators.&nbsp;The&nbsp;five&nbsp;regional hubs&nbsp;also&nbsp;discussed&nbsp;potential areas of collaboration&nbsp;across regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grant opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIRNEasia&nbsp;plans to issue the first call for proposals, with more details on the grantopportunities&nbsp;in the coming month.&nbsp;We will post details and updates on all our&nbsp;official&nbsp;communication&nbsp;platforms. Alternatively,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/TinTvHsBwa?origin=lprLink\">register here<\/a>&nbsp;to receive email updates&nbsp;<strong>including notification of the upcoming call for proposals<\/strong>&nbsp;and other related content and events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;FutureWORKS&nbsp;Collective was&nbsp;officially&nbsp;launched at an inception workshop&nbsp;organised by&nbsp;the&nbsp;JustJobs&nbsp;Network&nbsp;on March 6-9,&nbsp;2024&nbsp;in Negombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop was the first&nbsp;in-person&nbsp;convening of the five regional&nbsp;hubs that will form the&nbsp;Global South&nbsp;research network.&nbsp;The FutureWORKS Collective seeks to foster innovation that advances skills for the future of work and promote decent work globally.&nbsp;It will do this through Southern-led interdisciplinary research, network consolidation, and collaboration in public policy processes.&nbsp;This&nbsp;network, the&nbsp;FutureWORKS&nbsp;Collective&nbsp;is funded by the&nbsp;International Development Research Centre&nbsp;(IDRC)&nbsp;of Canada. LIRNEasia&nbsp;is leading in the building of the Asian network of the initiative\u2014FutureWORKS Asia\u2014over a period of five years. Similar networks are being built in Africa by the&nbsp;University of the Witwatersrand&nbsp;and the&nbsp;University of Ghana; in the MENA region by the&nbsp;American University of Beirut; and in Latin America and the Caribbean by&nbsp;Red Sudamericana de&nbsp;Econom\u00eda&nbsp;Aplicada.&nbsp;The&nbsp;JustJobs&nbsp;Network&nbsp;will play the role of a&nbsp;global knowledge mobilization hub that&nbsp;will&nbsp;facilitate synergy building, peer learning, knowledge synthesis and mobilization across the five regional hubs. As the Asia regional hub over the project period, we will be working toward the objective of developing and leading a regional research network to advance skills and policies for an inclusive and sustainable future of work in Asia.&nbsp;The network will engage in&nbsp;shared, interdisciplinary, and Southern-led research, as well as&nbsp;peer-to-peer learning,&nbsp;and collaboration in public policy processes.&nbsp;This will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-and-multimedia","category-events","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Launch of the\u00a0FutureWORKS\u00a0Collective\u00a0at\u00a0an inception workshop in\u00a0Negombo - FutureWORKS Asia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lirneasia.net\/futureworksasia\/2025\/05\/launch-of-the-futureworks-collective-at-aninception-workshop-in-negombo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Launch of the\u00a0FutureWORKS\u00a0Collective\u00a0at\u00a0an inception workshop in\u00a0Negombo - FutureWORKS Asia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The&nbsp;FutureWORKS&nbsp;Collective was&nbsp;officially&nbsp;launched at an inception workshop&nbsp;organised by&nbsp;the&nbsp;JustJobs&nbsp;Network&nbsp;on March 6-9,&nbsp;2024&nbsp;in Negombo, Sri Lanka. 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